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The Rise of Extremism in Europe With the kind support of: GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM Strasbourg Forum 2013 For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Rise of Extremism in Europe 14 March 2013 European Parliament Louise Weiss building, room N4.3 Strasbourg Forum 2013 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM The 4th event organised by the Greek Public Policy Forum, in collaboration this time with the office of Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, MEP, will take place on March 14 in Strasbourg, France. The Strasbourg Forum tries to continue the debate on important matters that affect the future of Europe that started with the three previous fora in Oxford (June 2011), Nottingham (March 2012) and Chania (September 2012). The Oxford Forum focused on Greece’s multifaceted crisis (economic, political and social). The Nottingham Forum tried to examine the Greek crisis in its European context. The Chania Forum tried to introduce a comparative dimension by looking at the crisis narratives in various EU countries (both from the European South and North) and establishing bridges between these parallel narratives/discourses. Lastly it attempted to examine the on-going challenges of EU integration in a global context. The Strasbourg Forum focuses on a specific troublesome phenomenon which on the one hand reminds us of the raison d’être of the Union but on the other, if ignored, can become the nemesis of European integration: the rise of extremism in Europe. The Strasbourg Forum brings together policy makers, political scientists and jurists with the hope to create a fruitful debate that will discuss amongst other the following questions: - What extremism? When does the expression of unconventional political views cross the Rubicon? - What are the causes of extremism? - Are there common patterns that lead to the rise of extremism? - Is extremism a by-product of the on-going multifaceted crisis? - What are the tools/methods for addressing the problem? - What are the limits of the law in dealing with this phenomenon? 2 Strasbourg Forum 2013 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM Thursday, March 14 PROGRAMME 8:30-9.00 Registration 9:00-9:10 Welcoming Remarks Jorgo CHATZIMARKAKIS, MEP (ALDE, Germany) 9:10-9.20 A Brief Presentation of the GPPF Aris GEORGOPOULOS, Lecturer in European and Public Law, University of Nottingham Nikitas KONSTANTINIDIS, Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy, London School of Economics Vassilis TZEVELEKOS, Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Hull 9:20-11:30 Session I - Roundtable Discussion Chair: Linos-Alexandros SICILIANOS, Judge, European Court of Human Rights Speakers: Pino ARLACCHI, MEP - Member of Subcommittee on Human Rights, S&D, Italy Barbara LOCHBIHLER, MEP - Chair of Subcommittee on Human Rights, Greens-EFA, Germany Niccolo RINALDI, MEP - Substitute of Subcommittee on Human Rights, ALDE, Italy Nikos SITAROPOULOS, Deputy to the Director of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe 3 Strasbourg Forum 2013 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM Rui TAVARES, MEP - Member of Subcommittee on Human Rights, Greens-EFA, Portugal Discussion Lunch Break 15:00-17:30 Session II – National Paradigms Chair: Antonios ANTONIADIS, Legal Officer in the European Ombudsman's Office Speakers: Tim BALE, Professor in Politics, Queen Mary University Catherine DE VRIES, Professor in European Politics, University of Oxford Nikos MARANTZIDIS, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Macedonia-Thessaloniki Matthew GOODWIN, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham Antonis ELLINAS, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Cyprus Elias DINAS, Lecturer in Political Science, University of Nottingham, member of the Greek Public Policy Forum Labrini RORI, Department of Political Science at the University of Paris I Discussion 4 Strasbourg Forum 2013 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM Biographical Notes Antonios Antoniadis is a Legal Officer in the European Ombudsman's Office. Prior to joining the Ombudsman, he was a Lecturer in EU and International Economic Law at Durham Law School for seven years where he served as the Deputy Director of the Durham European Law Institute. Antonios has also worked as a lawyer in Greece and as a trainee at the European Commission's Legal Service. He holds a Law Degree from the Democritus University of Thrace, an LLM from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Birmingham –his doctoral dissertation has been awarded the Richard B. Lillich Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a subject related to the procedural aspects of international law. Pino Arlacchi is a Member of the European Parliament (constituency of Southern Italy) for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Development Committee of the European Parliament. He was elected in 1994 to the Italian Chamber of Deputies and to the Italian Senate in 1996. Furthermore Arlacchi is full Professor of Sociology at the School of Political Science of the University of Sassari. He was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University (New York), and Associate Professor at the University of Florence. He is a leading authority and a scholar in the field of organised crime, illegal markets and global security. Professor Arlacchi was security adviser of the Chinese Government for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. From 1997 to 2002 he was Under-Secretary General of the UN, charged with the task of fighting terrorism, organized crime, money laundering and drug trafficking. He has served as Vice President of the Italian Parliamentary Commission on the Mafia Phenomenon. He was also Senior Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for the executive project that led to the creation of the DIA, a police agency specialised in the investigation of organised crime. This action has been instrumental in the subsequent successes against organised crime in Italy. Arlacchi survived a mafia assassination attempt in 1993. He is also the Honorary President of the Giovanni Falcone Foundation. 5 Strasbourg Forum 2013 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University, London. He graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After teaching English in Spain, he did a Masters Degree at Northwestern University in the USA. Following a few years spent working for the NHS, he returned to do a PhD at the Department of Politics at Sheffield University, where he then lectured for a year. After Sheffield, he taught politics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand until 2003 and then at Sussex University until 2012. For four years he was the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research's annual Political Data Yearbook. In 2008 he won the Political Studies Association's Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding Teaching. He was the co-founder of the PSA's specialist group on Conservatives and Conservatism. Tim's media work includes writing for the Financial Times and the Guardian, and he has appeared on various BBC radio and television programmes. In 2011 he received the Political Studies Association's W.J.M. Mackenzie prize for his book The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron. His latest book is The Conservatives since 1945: the Drivers of Party Change. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis has been a Member of the European Parliament for the German Liberal Party (FDP) since 2004. After the mid-term change in early 2012, he became a member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), and a substitute member of the Committees on Budgetary Control (CONT) and on Fisheries (PECH). He chairs the EP Delegation for relations with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). In the Committee on Budgetary Control, he was the ALDE Coordinator and, among others, the Rapporteur for the discharge of the Commission in 2009. As a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) from 2004 to 2011, Chatzimarkakis has been actively involved in developing directives on a wide range of subjects, most notably innovation issues (CIP) and industrial policies, esp. automotive industry, as well as education and research policies (EIT). Another important question he dealt with was the Report on the energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT/ITRE). At the national level, he has been a member of the FDP Board until May 2011 6 Strasbourg Forum 2013 GREEK PUBLIC POLICY FORUM and Secretary-General in his region, Saarland, from 2002 to 2010. Since 2010, he chairs the party's Programme Forum on Demography and Integration, discussing liberal ideas in this field with regards to the new party programme from 2013 on. He is also Vice-President of the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association (WHIA) and President of the German Hellenic Business Association (DHW). He studied agriculture and political science in Bonn and Oxford. Since 2006, Mr Chatzimarkakis has been a member of the Pharmaceutical Forum, a high level group designed to provide a political mandate for relevant public health issues. He launched the European Life Science Circle (ELSC), a platform to discuss relevant issues in the context of life sciences and pharmaceuticals. Catherine de Vries is a Professor of European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. She also holds an affiliated Professorship of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, she was Chair in Political Behaviour at the University of Geneva and held posts at the University of Amsterdam, the University of North Carolina
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